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Hitachi invents the "business microscope"
And even after reading the press release three times, we’re still not particularly sure what it’s meant for.
It is, apparently, a device that shows communication structures within companies, so you can see who does any work and who just sits there on Messenger chatting to their mates about Big Brother all day.
Solar-powered motorbike from SunRed
Spanish motor-maker SunRed has revealed its concept idea for a solar-powered motorbike.
The snail-like clamshell shape gives the bike 25 square feet of solar panel coverage, which should give it a 12 mile range and a top speed of, er, 30 miles an hour.
Alienware confirms existence of Area 51 laptop
If you don’t mind having a laptop as heavy as three paving slabs, you won’t mind the Alienware Area 51 M9750.
As with all Alienware laptops, it’s not about being able to carry it long distances or lift it over your head – it’s about power.
Xbox 360 failure rate as high as 30 percent?
A survey of retailers has found that as many as 30 percent of all Xbox 360s are being returned for repair. This goes against Microsoft’s assertion that Xbox 360 is well within standard industry failure rates of 3 – 5 percent.
British steam car challenge
The goal of the British steam car challenge is to create the world’s fastest car — using alternative fuels. Their aim is to reach 150 mph on British soil and then 200 mph at the Bonneville salt flats in Utah. Four LPG-powered boilers will feed the turbine engine with steam pressure, and the car will operate at total loss, consuming and expending the entire volume of water it carries for each run. If you want to contribute to this historic feat, you can support it for as little as £1 at the British Steam Car Appeal website. Britain needs YOU! [GT]
The Steam Car Challenge (viaCrave)
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The Quartz Tele by Tao Ma
Tao Ma is going away from the flat panel, the sheer lightweight plasticity, and into heft, weightiness, a thunkiness that Parmenidies himself would find convincing, with the Quartz Tele. Each number has an enormous coloured quartz crystal with an LED to illuminate the proceedings “like a Transformer’s energon cube”. A more conventional screen in the base contains information like caller ID, a calendar, and other more prosaic bits of actual data. Pretty as this may be, I’m already hearing my cat knock the crystals out at 4am. [GT]
Quartz Tele (via Popgadget)
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Black Dice Guru LED watch
Rounding out today’s look at somewhat geeky watches, the Black Dice Industries Guru watch is another one that’s encrusted with LEDs in a peculiar, eye-bending pattern. Comes in gold (by which I mean gold plate), black (by which I mean black power) and silver (by which I mean pixie dust). Water resistant to 50 meters. £125. [GT]
Black Dice Industries Guru watch
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Catapult watch: you’ll shoot your eye out
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Catapult watch: you'll shoot your eye out
You know the joke where you’re holding a drink, and someone asks what time it is, and you turn over your wrist and spill your drink? If you had a catapult watch you could then launch a barrage of BBs in retaliation. Available in black or silver, it also comes with a free supply of ammo. Great for your next meeting (if you want to get fired — hey, maybe your contract has good severance). See it in action after the jump. $49. [GT]
Catapult Watch (via Oh Gizmo!)
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USB doorbell lets you add your own ringtones
The USB Doorbell lets you swop out the standard chime in your doorsy’s push-button and replace it with whatever nonsense pleases you. You simply upload a .wav file of up to thirty seconds via USB and away you go. Requires three AAA batteries and standard doorbell wiring (it has no speakers, wireless capacity, etc) and is designed for a low voltage circuit (4-24 V). Video of the audio after the jump. $100. [GT]
USB Programmable Doorbell (via TechEBlog)
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Electronic Venus Flytrap actually works as fly catcher
Not just a random motorized imitation plant, the Fly Catcher has a packet of fly bait in its plastic mouth, which actually lures in flies. The fly swoops in and activates the sensors which, snap! the jaws shut. Dead fly! No fly blood on your hands! The bait is non-toxic and the fly catcher is as humane as a fly killer can be while actually, you know, killing it. Requires three AAA batteries. £ 19.95. [GT]
Fly Catcher (via Coolest Gadgets)
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